Let the Rankings Begin

As the summer is officially winding down you can expect every college basketball website to start putting out pre-season rankings. Collegehoops.net and Rivals.com have already gotten underway with this and recently Rivals countdown has placed Mason at #47. Whats interesting is that Maryland is listed at #48, ha I love it. Even though I've stated many times that these rankings are total bs, it's still entertaining. Rivals has mentioned that they believe both Mason and VCU should make the NCAA tournament this year, I couldn't agree more but at this point its mostly just hype. The article mentions that importance of the bench players contributing as the starting lineup provided a large majority of the scoring. Rivals seems to think Vlad Moldeveanu will be thrown into the fire early due to the lack of size and depth in the front court, but I'm not sure if we will see this right away. Vlad might be 6'10" but he is not a bruising power forward or center, his game is based mostly on his outside shooting. I could see Chris Fleming and Louis Birdsong logging more minutes in the frontcourt as they both showed improvement during the CAA tournament.